Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

Hogzy wrote: »

I never understand why its unmarked cars leading those chases! Nearly every video iv seen of a garda chase in Ireland is lead by an unmarked car. Surely it makes sense from a safety point of view to have a traffic corps car lead the chase in a vehicle that is lit up like a Christmas tree!

Chase policy would be nice in Ireland too... K has lot of unmarks.

But qs is that who has cbd3 or cbd2 in the chase

Hogzy wrote: »

Fair point, policy wise, are you not allowed take part in a chase at all if you dont have those qualifications? Or is it sort of, loose enough (if you catch my drift).

If you happen to see some of the clips of that pursuit you would notice a marked i40 with no blue lights on letting other patrol cars overtake on the ballymun road.
That was a CBD1 driver, they were the first marked unit to assist and the last to arrive at scene went it stopped. The unmarked primary was the first car that was hit so it had damage taken, it was more plausible at the time to leave it in primary due low civilian traffic and no pedestrian. I can’t say what unit it was but it was probably best they were number one given the equipment onboard the suspects vehicle.

punisher5112 wrote: »

I honestly hope they start fitting better lights as the unmarked units are near invisible for lighting but stand out a mile.....

The grills are different to most civilian, the lights in the grill are obvious as is dash light, Arial on the roof, rear lights only seen if you stand 45° to the side of the car.....

Oh yeah the steel wheels make it stand out even more too.

Some don't even have the dash lights.....

The Insignia estates have (factory fitted?) lights blended into the pillars of the hatch, very subtle but light up bright.Early i40's weren't great at the
rear, some improvements on the 201's at the rear. Interesting to know who's responsible for the bad lighting...in the UK it's checked out on the road before being approved:cool:

punisher5112 wrote: »

The rear fogs could easily be switched to flash as could the front high beams and so on...

I have a pair of wig-wags on my van when working on sites. Got the relay on ebay

Skodas I thought ?

delly wrote: »

The cycle unit? The mounted unit? Basically anything else that is non motorised.



Ah sorry, I thought he meant in the context of a chase.

I think the i40s are finishing production soon. Or so I heard.

punisher5112 wrote: »

Tucson or i20 wouldn't surprise me to be honest it's Ireland....

Sure they bought a sh1t ton of i30 and then find oh the equipment doesn't fit.... Eh well it did in the focus or Mondeo

You’re correct i40s are finishing! Lots of new estates white in the port at moment looks like they are buying large amount them

Tuscan will replacement them that’s why they are adding time in cbd2 for driving them too

California Dreamer wrote: »

Tuscon wouldn't be bad. I think the ride height is important. They strike me as being a bit better than the i40 anyway, could be completely wrong of course.

So Octavia/Superb for the unmarked units?

They are both the same really drive both not meant for police work.

Skoda superb part of the new contract is up in the air specialised units are getting few unmakes since last year but issue is the driving cert needed for them so not open to regular anyway

Few unmarked mondeo around so might be getting few marked but that’s the rumour

carzony wrote: »

The I40 seems to have been a very successful car for private ownership, they are everywhere to be seen.
I like the Mondeo but i'd guess they'd be too slow/bulky for policing work and of course expensive.

People bought because cheap.

They have given huge gearbox, clutch issues.

those octavias are very uncomfortable , the superb excellent , perhaps opel insignias
also base diesel Mondeo is very under powered , titanium model minimum , maybe time for opel again , the 152 insignias they had were super I had 1 myself 2.0 140bph
I now have 191 insignia , quite pleased with

all unmarked , have seen one at a checkpoint on garda twitter also seen 1 in cork not so long ago , all machine grey in solour